Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group

Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group (also known as Sony Family Entertainment Group) is an American and global company that was established in February 1999 by Sony Pictures Entertainment that handles all of the family programs and films by Sony Pictures.[1] It was formalized on September 1, 1999,[1] on January 17, 2001, Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group acquired 3.8% in BKN International.[2][3]

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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Sony Pictures
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. is an American entertainment company that produces, acquires and distributes filmed entertainment through multiple platforms. It operates as a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc. which is the parent company for both the music and motion picture businesses of Sony Corporation, based in Culver City, California, it encompasses Sonys motion picture, television production and distribution units. Its group sales in the fiscal year 2015 has been reported to be of $8.3 billion, Sony Pictures film franchises include Spider-Man, Men in Black, Underworld, Resident Evil, and Robert Langdon. Sony Pictures is one of Hollywoods major film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, on September 1,1987, The Coca-Cola Company announced plans to spin-off its assets of Columbia Pictures, which it had owned since 1982. Under this arrangement, Coca-Cola would sell its entertainment assets to TriStar Pictures, Tri-Star would be renamed to Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. with Coca-Cola owning 49%, its shareholders owning 31%, and Tri-Stars shareholders owning 20%. A new company was formed in early 1988 with the Tri-Star name to take over the studios operations, on September 28,1989, Sony obtained an option to purchase all of The Coca-Cola Companys stock in CPE for $27 per share. This was all led by Norio Ohga, who was the president, the hiring of Guber and Peters by Sony to run Columbia was conflicted by a previous contract the producers had signed at Warner Bros. Time Warners chairman, Steve Ross, threatened Sony with a lawsuit for breach of contract, the lawsuit would be subsequently dropped when Sony sold half-interest in Columbia House and cable distribution rights to Columbias feature films, TV movies, and miniseries to Warner Bros. Said agreement also saw Columbia sell its 35% interest in the Burbank Studios, on November 8,1989, Sony completed the acquisition by a short-form merger of its wholly owned subsidiary Sony Columbia Acquisition Corporation into CPE under Delaware law. Sony also completed a tender offer for shares of stock of the Guber-Peters Entertainment Company on November 6,1989. The acquisition cost Sony $4.9 billion and was backed by five major Japanese banks Mitsui, Tokyo, Fuji, Mitsubishi, the company was renamed Sony Pictures Entertainment on August 7,1991. On June 4,2008, SPEs wholly owned group 2JS Productions B. V. acquired Dutch production company 2waytraffic N. V. famous for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. and You Are What You Eat for £114.3 million. In 2011, the Sony Pictures computer network was breached and approximately one million user accounts associated with the SonyPictures. com website were leaked. On November 21,2013, SPE and Sony Entertainments CEO Michael Lynton announced that SPE will shift emphasis from movies to television by cutting its 2014 film slate, on January 22,2014, SPE folded its technology unit into its various cores of its businesses. On February 6,2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment, through their legal name Columbia TriStar Warner Filmes de Portugal Ltda. announced that they close their offices in Portugal on March 31. On November 20,2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that they will release Ultra HD Blu-ray releases, the first set will be in early 2016 and will include film and television content. In November 2014, the Sony Pictures computer network was compromised by a group of hackers named Guardians of Peace, disabling many computers. Later the same week, five of Sony Pictures movies were leaked, including some not yet released, as well as confidential data about 47,000 current and former Sony employees

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Sony Wonder
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Sony Wonder is the kids and family entertainment division of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It was founded in 1991 by Sony Music Entertainment as its children and family music, the division once distributed material from Sesame Workshop and Classic Media. They also distributed releases from Random Houses home video division from 1995 to 2007, on July 6,1993, Sony Wonder acquired video distribution rights to Nickelodeons series. The next day, Nickelodeon and Sony Wonder launched Nick Jr. Video, factory, a company founded in 2003. On May 4,1998, Sony Wonder bought Sunbow Productions, on March 13,2007, Sony BMG announced that it was shutting down Sony Wonder to focus on its core music business. However, on June 20,2007, it was announced that SW became a division of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment as its kids’-, cMs, Sesame Workshops and Random Houses video deals were sold to Genius Products for an undisclosed amount, and later to Vivendi Entertainment. Sesame Workshop properties are distributed by Warner Home Video. M4e AG currently holds the rights of the series by Sony Wonder which they bought from TV-Loonland in 2011 following the said companys bankruptcy. Official website Sony Wonder at the Internet Movie Database

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Sony BMG
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a record music company, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann AG. The ventures successor, the again-active Sony Music Entertainment, is 100% owned by the Sony Corporation of America, Sony BMG Music Entertainment began in Skem as the result of a 50–50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann Music Group completed on March 4,2004. The merger affected all Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group companies worldwide except for Japan, financial analysts covering the merger anticipated that up to 2,000 jobs would be cut as a result, saving Sony BMG approximately $350 million annually. The companys chief executive officer is Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, who succeeded Andrew Lack on February 10,2006, in the first half of 2005, the companys share of new releases in the United States declined from 33% to 26% according to Nielsen SoundScan. This, and Lacks negotiation of what called a ill-conceived deal with Bruce Springsteen led to Bertelsmann informing Sony that it would not renew Lacks contract. The company signed a content deal with the video sharing community YouTube. On August 5,2008 Sony Corporation agreed to buy Bertelsmann AGs 50 percent stake in the company for $1.2 billion to get full control. The music company was renamed Sony Music Entertainment and became a unit of Sony Corporation of America, epic Records, one of their labels, was specifically cited for using fake contests in order to hide the fact that the gifts were going to disc jockeys rather than listeners. A scandal ensued over digital rights management software produced and shipped by Sony BMG that automatically installed itself on peoples computers, the scandal and attendant controversy about the practice of software auto-installation spawned several lawsuits. Sony BMG eventually recalled all of the affected CDs, uS-CERT advised, Do not install software from sources that you do not expect to contain software, such as an audio CD. In its Top Flops of 05 issue, the enterprise newsweekly eWeek had to create a new category for the Sony BMG root-kit fiasco, peter Coffee, of eWeek Labs reported, The Sony brand name was already in trouble—it lost 16 percent of its value between 2004 and 2005. Now it has taken a blow among tech-product opinion leaders, weve never done it before, and we hope well never have occasion to do it again but, for 2005, eWeek Labs awards a Stupid Tech Trick grand prize to Sony. EWeek Vol.22, No.50 In October 2007, Sony BMG, alongside other large music firms, successfully sued Jammie Thomas. Ms. Thomas – who made US$36,000 a year – was ordered to pay US$222,000 in damages for making 24 songs available for download on the Kazaa file-sharing network. Thomas had allegedly shared 1702 files in total, the court upholding the award called it a case of willful infringement. Sony did not restrict minor childrens participation in its websites, Sony paid a $1 million fine. Sony Commercial Music Group – Official Site Sony Music Entertainment, Incorporated – Company Profile on Yahoo

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the home video distribution division of Sony Pictures, a subsidiary of Japanese company Sony Corporation. SPHE also releases products from Revolution Studios, since June 20,2007, SPHE now handles its former Sony BMG kids label, Sony Wonder. In Canada, Columbia TriStar Home Video helped distribute tapes from Astral Video in the 1990s and it also has an Australian deal with Hoyts. In June 1981, Columbia Pictures established a joint venture with RCA, RCA/Columbia Pictures International Video, the partnership expanded to North America as RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video the following year. The venture distributed NBC titles, as it was a subsidiary of RCA at the time, in March 1990, NBC filed a lawsuit against Columbia and its then-new parent company Sony under the perception that the latter two parties were violating their joint pact. Columbia purchased the video rights to Orion Pictures titles a month earlier. As the lawsuit continued into 1991, General Electric, the parent of NBC and RCA, in August 1991, General Electric sold its 50% share of the company to Sony Corporation, and the litigation officially ended with Sony renaming the company as Columbia TriStar Home Video. It was named Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment from 2001 until a change to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in late 2004. As RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video and as Columbia TriStar Home Video, the company also distributed films from New Line Cinema. Columbia TriStar Home Video also distributed tapes from Turner Home Entertainment in the UK from 1994-1997, SPHE has a three-year deal with Starzs Anchor Bay Entertainment for worldwide DVD releases, with the exceptions of North America, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. On February 21,2010, The Weinstein Company made a video distribution deal with SPHE through Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions. On August 31,2010, SPHE partnered with Image Entertainment in an agreement, marketing and distributing DVDs. Image retains its own sales and marketing, on April 23,2012, Mill Creek announced that they had signed a home video distribution deal with SPHE, acquiring the rights to distribute 250 films from the Sony Pictures catalog on DVD and Blu-ray. On August 27,2013, Mill Creek Entertainment signed a deal with SPHE to distribute 665 SPE films and 54 television series on DVD, on December 18,2013, SPHE president David Bishop announced he will leave when his contract expires in March 2014. David Bishop was president of SPHE since 2006 after leaving MGM Home Entertainment, on January 6,2014, it was announced that Man Jit Singh will replace Bishop after his contract expires in March. Man Jit Singh was the CEO of SPTs Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd. who was overseeing SPTs Indian Networks, Singh however, will not leave then Indian market, as he has been overseeing SPTs Indian TV market since 2009. On July 22,2015, SPHE and Transmission Films has reached a distribution pact to release the Transmission Films library in Australia. The Australian operations was a joint venture between RCA/Columbia Pictures Video and local cinema company Hoyts and it was known as RCA-Columbia Pictures-Hoyts Video, and released many local films in addition to Columbia Pictures titles

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Jeannie (TV series)
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Jeannie is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series and a spin-off based on the 1965–1970 NBC live-action sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Screen Gems Television, the animated series features the eponymous 2, 000-year-old genie character with her master and love interest Corey Anders, a high school student and surfer, and his best friend Henry Glopp. Many of Corey and Henrys misadventures often involved run-ins with their rival, S. Melvin Farthinghill, a snooty rich kid, S. Melvin was often a competitor with Corey when it came to girls, undermining his efforts at every turn. Comedian and former Three Stooges star Joe Besser voiced Babu, a cowardly, bumbling and his typical magic words are Yapple Dapple. Which usually gets everyone around him into a pickle, even himself, Babu normally annoyed almost everyone he met because he gets so nervous, he could never control his powers. Jeannie would always try to help Corey with his problems, using magic and she was also in love with him and whenever some other girl tried to get with him, shed sabotage everything. Unlike the blonde character from I Dream of Jeannie, the animated Jeannie was a ponytailed redhead, Jeannie could use her magical powers by crossing her arms and whipping her ponytail instead of blinking her eyes. On September 15,1973, Jeannie and Babu made one guest appearance on The New Scooby-Doo Movies, four years later, Babu alone appeared on Laff-A-Lympics. In 1977–78, episodes of Jeannie were serialized on the syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone, because of its ties to The Partridge Family. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a track created by the studio. Julie McWhirter - Jeannie Mark Hamill - Corey Anders Joe Besser - Babu Bob Hastings - Henry Glopp Janet Waldo - Mrs. Anders John Stephenson - Haji, RCA Sound Recording 1973 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc and Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. List of animated spin-offs from prime time shows Jeannie at the Internet Movie Database Jeannie @ The Big Cartoon DataBase

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Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
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While in pre-production, Hanna-Barbera originally proposed an updated version of The Jetsons, in which Elroy would be a teenager and Judy would have a steady job as an ace reporter. CBS, under the leadership of Fred Silverman, discarded the idea, the Partridge Family had already been recurring characters on a previous Hanna-Barbera production, Goober and the Ghost Chasers. This series saw the family propelled 225 years into the future, the series featured new characters Veenie and Marion. Danny had a pet dog named Orbit. The groups matriarch Shirley was voiced by Joan Gerber, in addition to Joness absence, David Cassidy and Dave Madden did not voice their animated counterparts, both parts were recast. Susan Dey provided Lauries voice for two episodes before she was replaced by former Mouseketeer Sherry Alberoni. Danny Bonaduce, Suzanne Crough and Brian Forster voiced their characters from the live action series. Sixteen half-hour episodes were produced for Partridge Family 2200 A. D. which lasted half a season on CBS Saturday morning, in 1977–78, it was re-titled The Partridge Family in Outer Space when episodes were serialized on the syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a track created by the studio. In October 2005, two restored episodes of Partridge Family 2200 A. D and my Son, The Spaceball Star and Car Trouble, were included as bonuses on The Partridge Family, The Complete First Season DVD set. List of Animated Spinoffs from Prime Time Shows Partridge Family 2200 A. D. at the Internet Movie Database Partridge Family,2200 A. D. at the Big Cartoon DataBase Partridge Family 2200 A. D

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The Real Ghostbusters
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The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series, a spinoff of the 1984 comedy movie Ghostbusters. The series ran from September 13,1986 to October 5,1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television, DiC Enterprises, J. Michael Straczynski was story editor, and wrote episodes for every season except four and seven. The Real was added to the title after a dispute with Filmation, the series continues the adventures of paranormal investigators Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, their secretary Janine Melnitz and their mascot ghost Slimer. At the start of the season in 1988, the show was retitled to Slimer. It aired in a time slot, which the show began doing under its original name earlier that same year in January. In addition to the regular thirty-minute Real Ghostbusters episode, a half-hour Slimer sub-series was added that included 2–3 short animated segments focusing on the character Slimer, cartoons was handled by Wang Film Productions. At the end of its run,147 episodes had aired, including the syndicated episodes and 13 episodes of Slimer. Slimer is shown to haunt the Sedgewick Hotel as its recurring pest, van Huego and her dog Fred, odd-job worker Rudy. Slimer had an antagonist named Professor Norman Dweeb, a mad scientist usually accompanied by a sidekick pink poodle named Elizabeth. Dweeb wants to capture Slimer to experiment on him and to gain personal glory, Dweeb also made three appearances in the main series, one a clip show from the last two seasons. Other enemies of Slimer include a cat named Manx, a dog named Bruiser, a tough woman named Mrs. Stone. One of the ghosts from the Slimer cartoons, the Sleaze, a short pilot episode was produced, but never aired in full. The full four-minute promo was released on Time Lifes DVD set in 2008, scenes of the pilot can be seen in TV promos that aired prior to the beginning of the series. When he auditioned for the voice of Egon Spengler, Maurice LaMarche noted that while he was asked not to impersonate Harold Ramis, he did so anyway and eventually got the part. Ernie Hudson was the actor from the films who auditioned to play his character in the series, however. At the same time The Real Ghostbusters was being created, Filmation was making a cartoon known simply as Ghostbusters, the character designs by Jim McDermott were dramatically redesigned from the way the same characters looked in the movie. Although the Ghostbusters concept was tinkered with, the show does feature many tie-ins from the films. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man made numerous appearances, during the third season, Walter Peck, the Environmental Protection Agency antagonist from the original film, reappeared

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Dinosaucers
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Dinosaucers is an animated television series co-produced in the United States and Canada. It was created by DIC Entertainment and this animated program originally aired in syndication in the United States in 1987 by Coca-Cola Telecommunications. 65 total episodes were made throughout the broadcasting, but it only lasted one season in 1987. The shows first 21 episodes could formerly be purchased individually by episode or as a set from online retailer Amazon. com. There were originally plans by Galoob to release a Dinosaucers toyline, and prototype figures were produced, however, the toys included Stego, Bronto-Thunder, Allo, Bonehead, Plesio, Quackpot, Ankylo, and Genghis Rex. The show follows the Dinosaucers and their battles against the evil Tyrannos, each group is composed of intelligent anthropomorphic dinosaurs or other prehistoric saurian species. The Dinosaucers are also allied with four known as the Secret Scouts. The two groups come from a planet in a counter-Earth orbit known as Reptilon. Most of the characters are named after the type of animal they are based on. Both groups have a base of operations. The Dinosaucers base is called Lava Dome and is located in a mountain area, the Tyrannos base is located under a tar pit. Each of the members save for Teryx and Terrible Dactyl–who can themselves fly–have flying ships in which they can travel. Most ships actually resemble the personae of their respective owners, along with their individual ships, both groups have a large mothership of sorts as well. All the Dinosaucers have a button on the front of their uniforms which instantly devolves them to their primitive ancestors dinosaur state, while retaining their intelligence and speech capacity. This special ability is called Dinovolving and initially appeared to be a significant element of the series, despite the apparent technological advantage, most of the later episodes did not feature any Dinovolving. Teryx was the only Dinosaucer who would never Dinovolve throughout the series, while Allo, Tricero, Bonehead, the Tyrannos dont have the secret of Dinovolving, and a few episodes even revolve around their plans to steal the technology somehow. However, they do possess a special raygun called a devolver, blasting a living creature with this weapon has the same devolving effect as Dinovolving, but reduces the victims intelligence to that of the devolved form. For those from Reptilon the form is that of a dinosaur while humans get reverted to primitive cavemen

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The Karate Kid (TV series)
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The Karate Kid is a 1989 animated series which debuted on NBCs Saturday morning lineup. It starred Joey Dedio, Robert Ito, and Janice Kawaye and it is based on the Karate Kid series of films, and was produced by DIC Entertainment, Saban Entertainment, and Columbia Pictures Television. The show was planned for daily syndication for fall 1988 with 65 episodes. The show retains apprentice Daniel LaRusso and his mentor Keisuke Miyagi, a miniature shrine with healing powers had been taken from its resting place on Okinawa, and it was up to Miyagi and Daniel to recover it. Together with Okinawan girl Taki, the karatekas searched the globe and, naturally, encountered several opportunities to chop, the episodes typically followed a similar formula, Mr. Miyagi would obtain a lead on the shrines location in some exotic corner of the world. Daniel and Taki would follow up on it, and in the process encounter some villains who had obtained or were seeking to obtain the shrine for their own evil purposes. As of May 2009, the show can be purchased on iTunes, and can be streamed for free in the US on Netflix, Internet Movie Database, Hulu, and Minisodes are available on Crackle. com

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Beakman's World
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Beakmans World is an educational childrens television show. The program is based on the Universal Press Syndicate syndicated comic strip You Can with Beakman, the series premiered on Wednesday, September 16,1992 on TLC, and on various other channels a few days later through syndication on 220 other channels. On September 18,1993 it moved from national syndication to CBSs Saturday morning children’s lineup, at the peak of its popularity, it was seen in nearly 90 countries around the world. The series was canceled in 1998, reruns returned to national syndication in September 2006, after which it was transferred to local stations such as KICU. The show debuted a year prior to Bill Nye the Science Guy, the shows host, Paul Zaloom, still performs as Beakman in live appearances around the globe. When his experiments were successful, he would often exclaim Zaloom, over the years, Beakman was aided in his experiments by a female assistant just as in the comic strip on which it was based. The assistants name changed throughout the run, for the episodes of season 1, it was Josie, for the episodes of seasons 2 and 3, it was Liza. Beakman was also assisted by his lab rat Lester, in the pilot episode, Lester was a puppet, but in every subsequent episode he was simply a clueless, crude man in a tattered rat suit. Sometimes unwilling to help out, Lester was often persuaded by Beakman with the promise of food, another occasional cast member is the unseen cameraman Ray, who is played by prop-master Ron Janculas hands. Ray assists Beakman by handing him various items, such as the boguscope and it is suggested throughout the program that Ray has a romantic crush on the shows unnamed make-up lady. Actress Jean Stapleton also appeared on the show as Beakmans mother, in some of the skits during the show the character Professor I. M. Boring makes appearances and talks about various science topics. Zaloom also appeared as various guest scientists and historic figures, such as Thomas A. Edison, Robert H. Goddard, when Senta Moses was added to the shows cast, the producers began to use a majority of the sound effects from the NBC game show Scrabble. One segment of the show was the famed Beakman Challenge, during this segment, Beakman would challenge Lester to do a stunt that illustrated a basic scientific feat. During the first season, virtually every challenge related to air pressure or Bernoullis principle. The show addressed this during the season, by having Lester exclaim to Beakman AIR PRESSURE. In Later episodes, the rest of the cast would sometimes have their turn to perform a Beakman Challenge under their own name, the penguins were named after Don Herbert, who starred as Mr. Wizard in Mr. Wizards World. Mark Ritts was also one of the operating the penguins. Beakmans World plays in syndication in the United States and in several other countries

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Project G.e.e.K.e.R.
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Project G. e. e. K. e. R. is an animated television series that premiered on CBS on September 14,1996. It was created by Douglas TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim, and Doug Langdale, TenNapel and Taylor also collaborated on the video games The Neverhood, Boombots and Skullmonkeys, and in 2005, re-united for the Nickelodeon cartoon Catscratch. The series is rated TV-Y7-FV, and was produced by Columbia TriStar Television, due to the lack of his final programming, Geeker is left to be a totally random, permanently salivating, four-fingered klutz. He only occasionally manages to use his powers to any extent, a blessing. Lady MacBeth and her partner-in-crime Noah, a green, baseball cap wearing intelligent Tyrannosaurus rex, must now prevent Moloch, Additional Voices Cree Summer as Lady MacBeth, Nanny, Sonny, Additional Voices Charles Adler as Dr. Two days before the show was set to air, Columbia TriStar discovered an issue with Terry and Patterson was asked by the producers to compose. Shawn completed this and Project GeeKeR aired with Shawns original main title music, weeks into the series, the licensing problem with Terry Scott Taylor was cleared up and the shows creator Doug TenNapel requested that Terrys original main title theme be reinserted into the series. Pattersons main title music was removed from the remainder of the series

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Jumanji (TV series)
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Jumanji is an American animated television series that was inspired by the movie based on the short story of the same name. The series ran for three seasons from 1996 to 1999, in 1996, it was carried by the UPN Kids network, but later seasons were syndicated by BKN. The series was shown by CITV in the United Kingdom, TRTÉ in the Republic of Ireland. It has aired in Pakistan on Cartoon Network in English and currently airs on Filmax in Urdu, Jumanji was produced by Adelaide Productions and was the first show made by that company, with character designs by Everett Peck. Episodes of the show are available on iTunes and Hulu, the show was rerun on Kabillion on Demand. The show has also released through YouTube. Judy and Peter Shepherd are two kids find a board game called Jumanji Each turn, the two of them were given a game clue and then sucked into the jungle until they solved their clue. They meet Alan Parrish who was trapped in Jumanji because he had never seen his clue, Judy and Peter would help Alan try to leave the game providing the characters motivation during the series. Also, Peter would sometimes be transformed into various animals whenever he cheated, the kids also free another player trapped longer than Alan. Unlike Alan, he saw his clue but never solved it and its also revealed that like Judy and Peter, Alan would never have been able to survive his first day in Jumanji without help as he possessed poor survival skills at the time. Ironically, his help came in the form of Judy and Peter from the future who help him survive, in return, the 10-year-old version of Alan helps Judy and Peter return to their time, but later hits his head and forgets meeting them. Once he knew his clue, Alan solved it with Judy and Peters help, outside, the kids decide to destroy the Jumanji game now that Alans free. In the series, it is revealed that Jumanji is sentient to a degree and on occasion has sucked in Judy, Van Pelt appears in some episodes. Alan Robert John Jason Parrish III – Judy and Peters companion in Jumanji and he has been trapped in the game since he was a boy and can only get out if he sees his original clue. According to the Jumanji database, he got trapped in Jumanji on April 3,1972, in Young Alan, he was a ten and a half-year-old boy, son of the late owner of a now long shut-down shoe factory and friends with future Officer Bentley. Judy and Peter free him at the end of the show by helping him find and he tries to get free throughout the series and sometimes succeeds, but always ends up trapped back in the game until hes finally freed by solving his long-lost clue. Alan was freed from the game by pulling a thorn from a lions paw, judith Judy Shepherd – Peters older sister. She is smart, and gets teased for it, although her intelligence helps them solve problems, Judy also has boy troubles as shown in various episodes

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Extreme Ghostbusters
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Extreme Ghostbusters is an animated television series and a follow-up to the animated series The Real Ghostbusters. It is a part of the Ghostbusters franchise, the series originally aired in late 1997, and features a team of younger college-level Ghostbusters who are led by veteran Ghostbuster Egon Spengler. In some TV listings, the show was called Ghostbusters Dark, set years after the end of The Real Ghostbusters, lack of supernatural activity has put the Ghostbusters out of business. When ghosts start to reappear, Egon is forced to recruit his four students as the new Ghostbusters. Filling the cast are Janine Melnitz, the Ghostbusters previous secretary who returns to the job, and Slimer, the series follows the adventures of this Next Generation of Ghostbusters tracking down and capturing ghosts all over New York and occasionally beyond the city. The series is styled as a comedy, following the trend set by its predecessor. This is reflected by the use of a gritty, rock/punk-inspired variation of Ray Parker, Jr. s song Ghostbusters as the theme written by Jim Latham. Showrunner Bob Higgins told Ability Magazine that the decision to create a new Ghostbusters was taken by the studio, who could kind of kick start the team. Fil Barlow, the designer, was given rough outlines and originally designed all the characters bar Eduardo as girls, when designed as Lucy, she was given proton-blasting callipers and crutches but producer Richard Raynis requested the wheelchair instead. The show ended up winning an award from the Los Angeles Commission on Disabilities for its work on Garrett, various elements would be changed before airing, Egon would replace Janine as the teacher, Slimer lost a goblin sidekick called Gnat, and Garrett was originally Lucas. Roland was originally a gentle giant, Eduardo had a dream of running in the Olympics. The team that helmed Extreme Ghostbusters consisted of producers and writers that had done work on The Real Ghostbusters. As a result, the show was made as an sequel to Real. Maurice LaMarche was brought back to play Egon Spengler — though Frank Welker and Laura Summer did not return to play Slimer and Janine, respectively. Egon Spengler - The only original Ghostbuster to become a regular in this spin-off series and he still lives in the fire house with Slimer, enabling the building to become the Ghostbusters headquarters when paranormal activity starts again. Before the first ghost escaped, Egon was teaching classes on the paranormal at New York City College - four people taking his class was double the usual. Other than ghosts, he also has an interest in mold and he continues to have romantic tension with Janine. The official website gave his age as 41 and in The Sphinx, he suffered a mid-life crisis, Janine Melnitz - The Ghostbusters original receptionist returns to the role after she is reunited with Egon by taking his Paranormal 101 class at New York City College

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Men in Black: The Series
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It was a more detailed TV series of the movie saga. The show is set in alternate timeline to Men in Black, the United Kingdom received a similar release on August 19,2002, however, all six episodes were released on one bumper VHS instead of three two-episode volumes. The release also included a seventh episode, which was actually episode one. It was then announced that the remainder of the shows first season, episodes 8-13, would be released in the region. On July 12,2004, the first three episodes of the first season were issued on DVD for the first time by UCA Pictures, further releases were planned, but sales were not strong enough to warrant any other DVD releases from UCA. The entire first season was issued on DVD for the first time on July 4,2007 in Australia, via Sony Pictures Entertainment, the set contained two discs, one containing seven episodes and the other containing the remaining six. On July 16,2007, the set was available in the United Kingdom. On May 11,2012, the entire first season was released on DVD for the first time in the United States, thus far, no plans have been announced to issue any further seasons of the show on DVD as of 2016

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Godzilla: The Series
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Godzilla, The Series is an American animated television series which originally aired on Fox Kids in the United States. The show premiered on September 12,1998, and is a direct follow-up to the 1998 American Godzilla film, malcolm Danare, Kevin Dunn and Michael Lerner reprise their roles from the film. Nick Tatopoulos as they battle giant mutant monsters which frequently appear in the wake of the events depicted in the 1998 film Godzilla. Godzilla, the only hatchling of its species to survive in the movie, imprints on Nick, Godzilla – A giant mutant iguana and the only surviving offspring of the first Godzilla that attacked New York City in 1998. Due to Nicks presence at his hatching, Godzilla has imprinted on Nick as his parent, Nick also has the ability to control Godzilla to a certain extent, which allows the humans to use him as a weapon against other giant mutant monsters. He always seems able to sense whenever Nick is in trouble and is willing to follow him. Unlike his biological parent, he seems to be incapable of asexual reproduction, Dr. Niko Nick Tatopoulos – Leader of H. E. A. T. and the adoptive father of Godzilla. Nick fiercely protects Godzilla and other mutations from both foreign and domestic governments and he is portrayed as younger and with longer hair then he is in the movie, as well as less absent-minded. Dr. Elsie Chapman – One of the members of Nicks team, sarcastic, dry-witted. She specializes in studying the behavior of Godzilla and the other mutations, Dr. Mendel Craven – The teams engineer and chemist. He is slightly cowardly and prone to numerous strong allergies, but is often resourceful and he is also enamored of Elsie. Although initially fearful of Godzilla, over the course of the series he comes to trust the monster as an ally, Randy Hernandez – An intern working under Nick, and like him, is Godzillas defender. He calls Godzilla the G-man and sometimes the big guy and he has referred to him as Mr. G, hugely talented in all fields of technology, but extremely lazy and somewhat laconic. He has a crush on Monique, but is always rebutted when he attempts to court her, Monique Dupre – A French Agent of the DGSE specializing in hand-to-hand combat and infiltration. She is originally sent to have Godzilla killed, but becomes a member of H. E. A. T, after being assigned to supervise Godzilla indefinitely. She generally seems cold and impassive, but on occasion shows genuine care and concern for her teammates, a running gag on the show is that he is damaged or destroyed in every episode presumably to be rebuilt or replaced later. Similar to Kenny McCormick from South Park, Major Anthony Hicks – Major of the Sandy Point Military Base of New York, who played a key role in the first Godzillas death. Audrey Timmonds – Nicks college sweetheart and somewhat untrustworthy girlfriend, whose career as a reporter often leads to conflict with him, victor Animal Palotti – New Yorks Channel 8 News cameraman and Audreys working partner

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Dragon Tales
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The story focuses on the adventures of two siblings, Max and Emmy, and their dragon friends Ord, Cassie, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal. The series began broadcasting on the PBS on their PBS Kids block on September 6,1999, with its final episode aired on November 25,2005, re-runs ceased on August 31,2010. On September 1,2010, Dragon Tales was removed from PBS Kids Sprout and all PBS stations and its programming, however, episodes of the show are still sold on DVD. The programs full library of episodes was made available to subscribers of the streaming service Netflix until March 1,2017, kelloggs cereal company and their associated products Rice Krispies, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes and card maker, American Greetings were major sponsors throughout the programs run. In 1997, Jim Coane, then a producer at Columbia TriStar Television, found the artwork, the series was originally shopped to PBS member stations in 1995 at the suggestion of PBS, which liked the series, but all passed at the time. In October 1995, Jim Coane met Marjorie Kalins, senior VP of programming and production at Childrens Television Workshop at the time, Kalins, loving the idea, brought the series to Childrens Television Workshop, who agreed to a partnership with the Columbia TriStar Television Group. Kalins helped him and Columbia TriStar Television obtain a grant from the Department of Education, the grant proposal was written by Wesley Eure. Coane was the producer for the first two seasons. The series received a massive multi-million dollar grant from the government, beating out The Muppets. Though the companion series was never created, Eure remains hopeful that it will one day be produced. Eures name was not included in the credits for the series. Following the development of a bible by Jeffrey Scott, with some tweaks by writers Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser. Scott was assigned to write and edit half, with Ruby/Lesser assigned to the other half, though the writers attempted to follow these directives, after the creation of the first script, all parties involved agreed that the scripts weren’t fun or funny, they were flat and boring. The writers successfully explained to the consultants, educators and psychologists of PBS that children watch television to be entertained and they were then provided with a new directive, Come up with entertaining stories and shoehorn in the curriculum wherever it fits. Scott states that from the experience he learned a lesson about how to create a successful preschool series. Designed to educate preschoolers mildly in Hispanic culture, during the final seasons a new character named Enrique debuted. As a series broadcast on PBS Kids, the program had an educational focus, educational topics covered included identifying shapes, learning words and letters in both English and Spanish, counting and basic math. Social topics were covered, such as good sportsmanship, the importance of being a good friend, overcoming obstacles such as jealousy or fears

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Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles
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Roughnecks, Starship Troopers Chronicles is a CGI animated television series, based on the novel by Robert A. Heinlein and the 1997 film adaptation. The films director, Paul Verhoeven, served as executive producer, the show focuses mainly on the Roughnecks missions, rather than addressing the larger war. The show was geared towards a science fiction audience without being too violent. The series aired for one season on BKN beginning in August 1999 and in syndication in the United States and it was later picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel in the US and Teletoon in Canada. The entire series is available to be streamed on Crackle in the US, despite its short run, the series developed a cult following. The show combines elements of Verhoevens film and the novel, such as the extraterrestrial race known as the Skinnies, powered armor suits. The series also adds some elements, while omitting the political aspects of the original work. When the Mobile Infantry defeats an infestation on Pluto, the world is united as the Strategically Integrated Coalition of Nations declares war on the insectoids. The main story focuses on a group of known as Alpha Team – otherwise known as Razaks Roughnecks – who are headed back to Pluto after Operation Pest Control. After destroying Bug City on Pluto, SICON sights a giant Transport Bug and this reveals that the Bugs are not native to Pluto. The Bugs are planning to control of the entire universe. SICON attempts to set up a base on the planet Tophet, the Skinnies, however, have been enslaved by the Bugs to mine Xylon, a precious mineral used for Transport Bugs. The Skinnies soon enlist in SICON to fight the Bugs, mainly due to their lack of interstellar travel technology, SICON soon discovers the existence of the Bug homeworld Klendathu. They attempt to destroy the Bug Queen but she escapes, headed for Earth and her Transport Bug is destroyed before she reaches the human homeworld, but she nevertheless makes it to Earth. With numerous battles on the front and the arrival of Bug reinforcements. The series is divided into eight story arcs or campaigns, with five episodes each, each campaign takes place at a different location. In the DVD release, each campaign is on a single disk, the Pluto Campaign Takes place on Pluto. The Hydora Campaign Takes place on Hydora, which is almost entirely covered by water, the Tophet Campaign Takes place on Tophet, a desert planet which is home to the Skinnies

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Jackie Chan Adventures
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Jackie Chan Adventures is an American animated television series starring the adventures of a fictionalized version of action film star Jackie Chan. Many of the episodes contained references to Chans actual works, the series ran on Kids WB for 5 seasons from September 9,2000 to July 8,2005. During its run, it was shown on Cartoon Network. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it premiered on Fox Kids on 2002. It used to air on Cartoon Network in Urdu in Pakistan, several toys and video games based on the series were produced and sold during the original run of the animated series. Its main character designer is Jeff Matsuda, Jackie Chan, an amateur archeologist, enjoyed his job working for the local university until fate dealt him another hand. After finding a shield containing a talisman he encounters The Dark Hand, the main characters are, Jackie Chan – Jackie Chan is a talented archaeologist and skilled martial artist who lives in San Francisco with his uncle. Jade Chan – Jade is Jackies Hong Kong-born, 12-year-old niece who is already Americanized and she is adventurous, and thus she frequently disobeys her uncles advice to remain in safety. She tends to accompany Jackie as he goes out on adventures, though she will not admit it, she has to be rescued by Jackie almost every time. Just as often, however, her mind and flexible thinking help Jackie in situations where his moderate thinking. A frequent gag in the series is her ability to appear in the middle of the action mere seconds after being left in a supposedly secure location/vehicle for her safety. Uncle Chan – Uncle, as he is known, is the uncle of Jackie and he has a very stereotypical Cantonese accented drawl, usually talks in third person about himself, and often uses Cantonese in many aspects of his speech. His most commonly used items are a dried salamander and puffer fish. Tea is his favorite drink, but he often complains its too hot or cold and he has a variety of catchphrases, almost all of them used as admonitions to other characters. He is a martial artist, but he is rarely seen engaging in hand-to-hand combat. When he does, he usually takes out with one discreet strike. Uncles most utlized skills are his knowledge of history, and his talents for sorcery and he is a talented chi wizard, able to hold his own against and gain the better of opponents who are much more capable than him. Tohru – A very large Japanese man, Tohru was once an enforcer for the Dark Hand, from the episode centered around the Pig and Dog talismans, Tohru started to have second thoughts about working for the Dark Hand

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Alienators: Evolution Continues
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Alienators, Evolution Continues is an Amercian animated television series based on the 2001 film Evolution. Although the Evolution intellectual property was owned by DreamWorks SKG, the series itself is now owned by DHX Media, the series was the basis for a Game Boy Advance game, that was developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Activision. A team of scientists, the Alienators, must eliminate all these creatures before they destroy all life on Earth, follows up to the Ivan Reitman science fiction film, Evolution. The characters, Ira Kane, Harry Block, Lucy Mai, the Genus is led by a humanoid manifestation named Scopes. Scientist Ira Kane - A biologist fascinated by scientific discoveries and breakthroughs and his scientific knowledge, along with his excitement and passion about the theory of quick evolution, helps him lead the team in eliminating the Genus. Scientist Harry Block - A coach who always keeps up on scores, etc. His strategies help the team to victory, lt. Lucy Mai - A tough and aggressive lieutenant trained by a Special Forces team called The Blue Berets. She believes everything should be done by the book, and if it is not explained in the book, teenage wannabe fireman Wayne Grey - A 17-year-old firefighter-in-training. Being the first human infected with alien DNA, he develops a sympathetic mutation, scientist Allison Reed has no direct work with the alienators, but is mentioned a few times, no retaining a relationship with Ira like in the movie. General Russell Woodman is the pompus windbag in charge of giving the alienators missions, stands for Genetically Altered Symbiotic Stasis in Evolution, and is the teams pet. It was a cell originally neutralized by Ira. It evolved into Gassie, a creature that yips and behaves like a dog. When Gassie detects the Genus, he quivers and emits a foul odor, Scopes is the Genus leader, Super intelligent and intent on taking over the universe. Though he occasionally evolves into various creatures, his most common form is as an alien humanoid octopoid and his name is a reference to the Scopes trial. Alienators, Evolution Continues at TV. com Alienators, Evolution Continues at the Internet Movie Database

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Harold and the Purple Crayon
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Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 1955 childrens book by Crockett Johnson. This is Johnsons most popular book and it led to a series of other books, and inspired many adaptations. The protagonist, Harold, is a curious boy who. Harold wants to go for a walk in the moonlight, but there is no moon and he has nowhere to walk, so he draws a path. He has many adventures looking for his room, and in the end he draws his own house and bed, in 1971, Gene Deitch directed an animation of A Picture for Harolds Room, and in 1974 an animation of Harolds Fairy Tale. In 1993, these three animations were packaged with a documentary, and sold as the Harold and the Purple Crayon and Other Harold Stories set. In 2002, the stories were adapted by Adelaide Productions into a 13-episode television series for HBO narrated by Sharon Stone, the series won a Daytime Emmy Award for Main Title Design, and was nominated for an Annie Award and Humanitas Prize. There have also been theater adaptations, in the couch gag for the Simpsons episode The Bob Next Door, Harold is shown drawing the Simpson family living room during the regular title sequence. Homer also asks Harold to draw him a can of beer after he finishes with the living room, in 2011, the story was adapted as an interactive book for the iPad by Trilogy Studios. In February 2010, it was reported that Sony Pictures Animation and Will Smiths Overbrook Entertainment are developing a CGI-animated film adaptation of Harold and it is being produced by Will Smith and James Lassiter, and written by Josh Klausner. In December 2016, it had reported that the film will also be written by Dallas Clayton. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the one of its Teachers Top 100 Books for Children. In 2012 it was ranked number 16 among the Top 100 Picture Books in a survey published by School Library Journal. In Rob Reiners 1999 romantic comedy The Story of Us, Kate says that Harold and the Purple Crayon is one of her favorite books and an allegory for her marriage with Ben. She later explains that Ben just wouldnt share the crayon, Crockett Johnson Homepage, Books, The Harold Series The Appeal of Harold and the Purple Crayon, NPR - All Things Considered, May 29,2005

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Astro Boy (2003 TV series)
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It was also shown on Animax, who have broadcast the series across its respective networks worldwide, including Japan, Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia, and other regions. It was created to celebrate the date of Atom/Astro Boy. It combined the playfulness of the anime with the darker, more serious and dramatic Science fiction themes of the manga. The anime broadcast in Japan on the date as Atoms/Astros birth in the manga across Animax. It was directed by Kazuya Konaka and written by Chiaki J. Konaka at the beginning of the series, other writers included were Keiichi Hasegawa, Sadayuki Murai, Ai Ohta, Hirotoshi Kobayashi, Kenji Konuta, and Marc Handler, who was also executive story editor. The series consisted of fifty episodes, the show is set in 2043, where robots are common part of humanitys lives. In Metro City, the renowned Doctor Tenma disappears after trying to construct an AI robot using a new technology called Kokoro, professor Ochanomizu replaces Tenma as head of the Ministry of Science and discovers a boy-like robot and brings it to life and names him Atom/Astro. A new arc occurs with the introduction of the Blue Knight, another recurring character, Mr. Drake, goes slowly paranoid about the destruction of all robots and becomes a major antagonist of the series. In the final episodes, the Blue Knight declares a new nation for robots, Robotonia, Drake deceives the public into believing a house robot pushed a young girl down a flight of stairs, and the girls father, General Red, declares war on Robotonia. Most of the core cast becomes involved in the goal to stop the war between man and machine, until Astro convinces the Blue Knight that humans and robots can be friends, the Blue Knight departs Earth on Robotonia, which is revealed to be a spacecraft. However, Drake, who is paranoid, tries to destroy the spacecraft with a missile. Dr. Tenma manages to restore him, but erases his memories as Astro, eventually, his memories are restored by his friends from school and his sister, Zoran. In one final attempt to reclaim his lost son, Dr. Tenma goes to a laboratory in the Ministry and tries to convince Astro to join him in ruling the world but the latter refuses. Dr. Tenma tries to himself to end his suffering. Professor Ochanomizu and the police come to the rescue, and Dr. Tenma is willingly arrested. At the end of the series, Astro and Tenma and humans and robots start happily fresh, Humans and robots come closer together, and Astro appears to shed tears at the conclusion of the series. In 2005, an IMAX film was made titled Astro Boy vs IGZA that is based strongly on this series and it was distributed by Sarai Inc. and was never made into English. There was also a film titled The Secret of Atoms Birth

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The Spectacular Spider-Man (TV series)
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The Spectacular Spider-Man is an American animated television series based on the superhero character published by Marvel Comics and developed for television by Greg Weisman and Victor Cook. However, it tends to use material from all eras of the comics run and other sources such as the film series. The Spectacular Spider-Man premiered on March 8,2008 during the Kids WB programming block of The CW, the series aired its second season on Marvels sister network Disney XD in the United States and ended its run on November 18,2009. The entire series was broadcast in Canada on Teletoon, although a third season was planned, the series was cancelled before production could begin due to legal problems between Disney and Sony Pictures Television. The two seasons of the series are set during a semester of Peters high school years, with season one running from September to November. Producer Greg Weisman has stated that the theme is The Education of Peter Parker. While harassed at school, particularly by football star Flash Thompson, he is friends with classmates Gwen Stacy. Peter and Gwen are also given junior lab assistant positions under Dr. Curt Connors at Empire State University and these new enemies include Sandman and Rhino, both petty criminals who regularly fell victim to Spider-Man. However, the Big Mans plans become greatly complicated when the mysterious Green Goblin enters the picture, throughout the first season, the other opponents are introduced are Black Cat who has a crush on him, Shocker and Chameleon. Quentin Beck and Phineas Mason appear as Chameleons associates, after the Green Goblin is vanquished, Spider-Mans symbiote black suit makes an appearance, eventually leading to Eddie Brocks transformation into Venom. Peter Parkers life becomes more complicated as he finds himself torn between Gwen Stacy and Liz Allan, both of whom have confessed their feelings for him, he eventually chooses Liz. Meanwhile, as Spider-Man, Peter encounters new villains Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter, Peters search for Eddie Brock also leads to the return of Venom, who attempts to expose Spider-Mans secret identity and remove his powers. Finally, when the three crime lords are arrested, Spider-Man once again goes up against the Green Goblin. Other new characters introduced in the season include Calypso, Sha Shan Nguyen, Silver Sable, Roderick Kingsley. Quentin Beck and Phineas Mason return as Mysterio and the Tinkerer respectively, the timeline of the original Spider-Man story-arcs has been condensed and reconfigured in order to include classic and important characters who originally appeared much later. The series also sports a very wide supporting cast, every named character who appears in the series, even very minor characters, is based on a character who appeared in the original comics Ultimate Spider-Man series or film series. The series was produced by Sony Pictures direct-to-video label Culver Entertainment and its animation studio. The series was developed by supervising producers Victor Cook and Greg Weisman, Cook as supervising director, the lead character designer for the series is Sean Galloway

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Sony
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Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation that is headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, entertainment, the company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony was ranked 116th on the 2015 list of Fortune Global 500 and these make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. The group consists of Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Financial Holdings and others. Sony is among the Semiconductor sales leaders by year and as of 2013, the companys current slogan is BE MOVED. Their former slogans were make. believe, like. no. other, Sony has a weak tie to the SMFG keiretsu, the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu. Sony began in the wake of World War II, in 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in a department store building in Tokyo. The company had $530 in capital and a total of eight employees, in the following year he was joined by his colleague, Akio Morita, and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo 東京通信工業. The company built Japans first tape recorder, called the Type-G, in 1958 the company changed its name to Sony. When Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was looking for a name to use to market themselves, they strongly considered using their initials. The primary reason they did not is that the railway company Tokyo Kyuko was known as TTK, the company occasionally used the acronym Totsuko in Japan, but during his visit to the United States, Morita discovered that Americans had trouble pronouncing that name. Another early name that was tried out for a while was Tokyo Teletech until Akio Morita discovered that there was an American company already using Teletech as a brand name, the name Sony was chosen for the brand as a mix of two words. One was the Latin word sonus, which is the root of sonic and sound, and the other was sonny, a common slang term used in 1950s America to call a boy. In the 1950s Japan sonny boys, was a word into Japanese which connoted smart and presentable young men. The first Sony-branded product, the TR-55 transistor radio, appeared in 1955, at the time of the change, it was extremely unusual for a Japanese company to use Roman letters to spell its name instead of writing it in kanji. The move was not without opposition, TTKs principal bank at the time and they pushed for a name such as Sony Electronic Industries, or Sony Teletech. Akio Morita was firm, however, as he did not want the company tied to any particular industry. Eventually, both Ibuka and Mitsui Banks chairman gave their approval, according to Schiffer, Sonys TR-63 radio cracked open the U. S. market and launched the new industry of consumer microelectronics

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Masaru Ibuka
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Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics industrialist and co-founder of Sony. In 1946, he left the company and navy, and founded a bombed out radio repair shop in Tokyo, in 1946 Ibuka and Akio Morita co-founded Sony Corporation, originally named Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. Ibuka served as president of Sony from 1950 to 1971, Ibuka received Honorary Doctorates from the Sophia University, Tokyo in 1976, from the Waseda University, Tokyo in 1979, and from Brown University in 1994. The IEEE awarded him the IEEE Founders Medal in 1972 and named the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award after him in 1987, Ibuka served as the Chairman of the National Board of Governors of the Boy Scouts of Nippon. In 1991 the World Organization of the Scout Movement awarded him the Bronze Wolf, in 1989 he also received the highest distinction of the Scout Association of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award. Distinguished Services Award from the Institute of Electrical Communication Engineers of Japan,1981, humanism and Technology Award from the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies,1986. Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor, German Eduard Rhein Foundation,1989, designated Person of Cultural Merits by Ministry of Education,199. The Presidential Award and Medallion from the University of Illinois, the books foreword was written by Glenn Doman, founder of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, an organization that teaches parents about child brain development. Ibuka and Doman agreed that the first years of life were vital for education, Ibuka left Sony in 1976, but maintained close ties as an advisor until his death in December 1997 from heart failure at the age of 89. He was posthumously decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers, Ibukas books IEEE bio of Ibuka Russian version of Ibukas Kindergarten is Too Late

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Akio Morita
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Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka. Akio Morita was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, moritas family was involved in sake, miso and soy sauce production in the village of Kosugaya on the western coast of Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture since 1665. He was the oldest of four siblings and his father Kyuzaemon trained him as a child to take over the family business, Akio, however, found his true calling in mathematics and physics, and in 1944 he graduated from Osaka Imperial University with a degree in physics. He was later commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy, during his service, Morita met his future business partner Masaru Ibuka in the Navys Wartime Research Committee. On May 7,1946, Morita and Ibuka founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha with about 20 employees, Ibuka was 38 years old, Morita,25. Moritas family invested in Sony during the period and was the largest shareholder. In 1949, the company developed magnetic recording tape and in 1950, in 1957, it produced a pocket-sized radio, and in 1958, Morita and Ibuka decided to rename their company Sony. Morita was an advocate for all the products made by Sony, however, since the radio was slightly too big to fit in a shirt pocket, Morita made his employees wear shirts with slightly larger pockets to give the radio a pocket sized appearance. In 1960, it produced the first transistor television in the world, in 1973, Sony received an Emmy Award for its Trinitron television-set technology. In 1975, it released the first Betamax home video recorder, in 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it one of the worlds first portable music players. In 1984, Sony launched the Discman series which extended their Walkman brand to portable CD products, in 1960, the Sony Corporation of America was established in the United States. In 1961, Sony Corporation was the first Japanese company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, in the form of American depositary receipts, which are traded over-the-counter. Sony bought CBS Records Group which consisted of Columbia Records, Epic Records and other CBS labels in 1988, on November 25,1994, Morita stepped down as Sony chairman after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage while playing tennis. He was succeeded by Norio Ohga, who had joined the company in the 1950s after sending Morita a letter denouncing the poor quality of the tape recorders. Morita was vice chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and was a member of the Japan-U. S, economic Relations Group, also known as the Wise Mens Group. He was also the third Japanese chairman of the Trilateral Commission and his amateur radio call sign is JP1DPJ. In 1966, Morita wrote a book called Gakureki Muyō Ron, in 1986, Morita wrote an autobiography titled Made in Japan. The book was translated into English and caused controversy in the United States, Morita was awarded the Albert Medal by the United Kingdoms Royal Society of Arts in 1982, the first Japanese to receive the honor

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Kaz Hirai
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Kazuo Kaz Hirai is a Japanese businessman who is the President and CEO of Sony Corporation. He also serves as a member of Sony Interactive Entertainment and chairman. He was noted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the most powerful executives in the entertainment industry, Hirai became the President and CEO of Sony on April 1,2012. Kazuo Hirai was born in 1960 in Tokyo, Japan, where he attended the American School in Japan, between 1973 and 1976, Hirai attended Valley Park Middle School in Toronto. It was his interest in games that later brought him into the entertainment business and he eventually became head of Sony Computer Entertainment Japans international business affairs office in New York. Kazuo Hirai began his career with Sony Music Entertainment Japan in 1984, afterwards, becoming the head of Sonys international business affairs department. He then moved to Sony Music Japan’s New York office, leading the marketing of Sony Music Japan artists in the U. S, in August 1995, Hirai joined Sonys computer and video game division, Sony Computer Entertainment America. Two years later, in 1997, Hirai was credited on his first completed video game, under his leadership, SCEA continually managed to retain high profits throughout the sixth generation era. On July 3,2006, Sony Computer Entertainment announced that Hirai had been made a president of its corporate executive group. On November 30,2006, just under two weeks after the launch of PlayStation 3, Hirai replaced Ken Kutaragi as President of Sony Computer Entertainment, while maintaining his positions at SCEA, Hirai also became chief operating officer of SCEI. Kutaragi himself was promoted to chairman of SCEI, and remained chief executive officer of the group. On April 26,2007, it was announced that Hirai will be promoted to President and Group CEO of SCEI, replacing Ken Kutaragi who would retire and instead take up the role of Honorary Chairman. On April 1,2009, Sony’s electronics and game businesses were merged and reconfigured as two groups, the Consumer Products & Devices Group and the Networked Products & Services Group. Hirai was appointed as Corporate Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Sony Corporation, Hirai became Chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment on September 1,2011 and was replaced by Andrew House as President and Group CEO. He retired as Chairman of SCEI on June 25,2012, on April 1,2011, Hirai was promoted to Representative Corporate Executive Officer and Executive Deputy President of Sony Corporation. He oversaw the Consumer Products & Services Group, Hirai was speculated to become the successor to Howard Stringer, the current sitting president and CEO of Sony Corporation, who was then expected to step down in 2013. On February 1,2012, Sony announced that Hirai has been appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer and he was appointed to the Board at the annual shareholders meeting on June 27,2012. Official website Kaz Hirais profile at MobyGames

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Sony Interactive Entertainment
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Sony Interactive Entertainment is a multinational video game company and is an owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products and Services Group of Sony. The company was founded and established on November 16,1993, as Sony Computer Entertainment, since the successful launch of the original PlayStation console in 1994, the company has since been developing the PlayStation lineup of home video game consoles and accessories. Expanding upon North America and other countries, the company soon became Sonys main resource for research and development in video games, in 1994, Sony Computer Entertainment America, began to produce the original PlayStation console in North America. The starting price for this console was originally listed at $299.99, in April 2016, SCE and Sony Network Entertainment was restructured and reorganized into Sony Interactive Entertainment, carrying over the operations and primary objectives from both companies. Sony Interactive Entertainment handles the research and development, production, alongside, it is also a developer and publisher of video game titles and is composed of several subsidiaries of Sonys largest markets, North America, Europe and Asia. As of September 30,2016, the company has sold more than 486 million PlayStation consoles worldwide. Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. was jointly established by Sony, the original PlayStation console was released on December 3,1994, in Japan. The companys North American operations, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, were established in May 1995 as a division of Sony Electronic Publishing. Located in Foster City, California, the North American office was headed by Steve Race. On August 7,1995, Race unexpectedly resigned and was named CEO of Spectrum HoloByte three days later and he was replaced by Sony Electronics veteran Martin Homlish. The PS console was released in the United States on September 9,1995, as part of a worldwide restructuring at the beginning of 1997, SCEA was re-established as a wholly owned subsidiary of SCEI. The launch of the second PS console, the PlayStation 2 was released in Japan on March 4,2000, on July 1,2002, chairman of SCEI, Shigeo Maruyama, was replaced by Tamotsu Iba as chairman. Jack Tretton and Phil Harrison were also promoted to vice presidents of SCE. The PlayStation Portable was SCEIs first foray into the handheld console market. Its development was first announced during SCEs E3 conference in 2003, the system was released in Japan on December 12,2004, in North America on March 24,2005, and in Europe and Australia on September 1,2005. On September 14,2005, SCEI formed Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, shuhei Yoshida was named as President of SCE WWS on May 16,2008, replacing Kazuo Hirai, who was serving interim after Harrison left the company in early 2008. On December 8,2005, video game developer Guerrilla Games, on January 24,2006, video game developer Zipper Interactive, developers of the Socom series, was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment as part of its SCE WWS. Sony also stated that the service would always be connected, free, the launch date for the PS3 was announced by Hirai at the pre-Electronic Entertainment Expo conference held at Sony Pictures Studios in Los Angeles, U. S. on May 8,2006

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PlayStation
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It is created and owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment since December 3,1994, with the launch of the original PlayStation console in Japan. The original console in the series was the first video game console to ship 100 million units,9 years and 6 months after its initial launch and its successor, the PlayStation 2, was released in 2000. The PlayStation 2 is the home console to date, having reached over 155 million units sold as of December 28,2012. Sonys next console, the PlayStation 3, was released in 2006 and has sold over 80 million consoles worldwide as of November 2013. Sonys latest console, the PlayStation 4, was released in 2013, selling 1 million consoles in its first 24 hours on sale, the first handheld game console in the PlayStation series, sold a total of 80 million units worldwide by November 2013. Its successor, the PlayStation Vita, which launched in Japan on December 17,2011, PlayStation TV is a microconsole and a non-portable variant of the PlayStation Vita handheld game console. The main series of controllers utilized by the PlayStation series is the DualShock, the PlayStation Network is an online service with over 110 million users worldwide. PlayStation Mobile is a framework that provides PlayStation content on mobile devices. Content set to be released under the framework consist of only original PlayStation games currently, 7th generation PlayStation products also use the XrossMediaBar, which is an award-winning graphical user interface. A new touch screen-based user interface called LiveArea was launched for the PlayStation Vita, additionally, PlayStation 2 and original PlayStation 3 consoles also featured support for Linux-based operating systems, though this has since been discontinued. The series has also known for its numerous marketing campaigns. The consoles origins date back to 1988 where it was originally a joint project between Nintendo and Sony to create a CD-ROM for the Super Famicom. However, a day after the announcement at CES, Nintendo announced that it would be breaking its partnership with Sony, opting to go with Philips instead but using the same technology. The deal was broken by Nintendo after they were unable to come to an agreement on how revenue would be split between the two companies. The breaking of the partnership infuriated Sony President Norio Ohga, who responded by appointing Kutaragi with the responsibility of developing the PlayStation project to rival Nintendo. At that time, negotiations were still on-going between Nintendo and Sony, with Nintendo offering Sony a non-gaming role regarding their new partnership with Philips. This proposal was rejected by Kutaragi who was facing increasing criticism over his work with regard to entering the video game industry from within Sony. At the meeting, Kutaragi unveiled a proprietary CD-ROM-based system he had working on which involved playing video games with 3D graphics to the board

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Sony Mobile
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Sony Mobile is a multinational telecommunications company founded on October 1,2001 as a joint venture between Sony and Ericsson, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and wholly owned by Sony. It was originally incorporated as Sony Ericsson, but Sony acquired Ericssons share in the venture on February 16,2012, Sony Mobile Communications has research and development facilities in Kenya, Africa, Chennai, India, Lund, Sweden, Beijing, China and Silicon Valley, USA. Sony Mobile was the fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer by market share in the quarter of 2012 with 9.8 million units shipped. In the United States, Ericsson partnered with General Electric in the nineties as Ericsson Mobile Communications, primarily to establish a US presence. Ericsson had decided to obtain chips for its phones from a single source—a Philips facility in New Mexico, on March 17,2000, a fire at the Philips factory contaminated the sterile facility. Philips assured Ericsson and Nokia that production would be delayed for no more than a week, when it became clear that production would actually be compromised for months, Ericsson was faced with a serious shortage. Nokia had already begun to obtain parts from alternative sources, but Ericssons position was much worse as production of current models and the launch of new ones was held up. Ericsson, which had been in the phone market for decades. This was mainly due to fire and its inability to produce cheaper phones like Nokia. To curtail the losses, it considered outsourcing production to Asian companies that could produce the handsets for lower costs, speculation began about a possible sale by Ericsson of its mobile phone division, but the companys president, Kurt Hellström, said it had no plans to do so. Hellström said, Mobile phones are really a core business for Ericsson and we wouldnt be as successful if we didnt have phones. Sony was a player in the worldwide mobile phone market with a share of less than 1 percent in 2000. By August 2001, the two companies had finalised the terms of the merger announced in April, Ericsson contributed a majority of the Ericsson Mobile Communications company, excluding a minor part spun off as Ericsson Mobile Platforms. Sony contributed its entire handset division, the company was to have an initial workforce of 3,500 employees. To this end, it released new models which had built-in digital camera. The joint venture continued to make losses in spite of booming sales. In 2007, the companys first 5-Megapixel camera phone, the Sony Ericsson K850i, was announced followed in 2008 by the Sony Ericsson C905, at Mobile World Congress 2009, Sony Ericsson unveiled the first 12-Megapixel phone, named Satio. In 2005, Sony Ericsson agreed to become the title sponsor for the WTA Tour in a deal worth $88 million US dollars over 6 years

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Sony Entertainment
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Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation that is headquartered in Kōnan, Minato, Tokyo. Its diversified business includes consumer and professional electronics, gaming, entertainment, the company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets. Sony was ranked 116th on the 2015 list of Fortune Global 500 and these make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. The group consists of Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Financial Holdings and others. Sony is among the Semiconductor sales leaders by year and as of 2013, the companys current slogan is BE MOVED. Their former slogans were make. believe, like. no. other, Sony has a weak tie to the SMFG keiretsu, the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu. Sony began in the wake of World War II, in 1946, Masaru Ibuka started an electronics shop in a department store building in Tokyo. The company had $530 in capital and a total of eight employees, in the following year he was joined by his colleague, Akio Morita, and they founded a company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo 東京通信工業. The company built Japans first tape recorder, called the Type-G, in 1958 the company changed its name to Sony. When Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was looking for a name to use to market themselves, they strongly considered using their initials. The primary reason they did not is that the railway company Tokyo Kyuko was known as TTK, the company occasionally used the acronym Totsuko in Japan, but during his visit to the United States, Morita discovered that Americans had trouble pronouncing that name. Another early name that was tried out for a while was Tokyo Teletech until Akio Morita discovered that there was an American company already using Teletech as a brand name, the name Sony was chosen for the brand as a mix of two words. One was the Latin word sonus, which is the root of sonic and sound, and the other was sonny, a common slang term used in 1950s America to call a boy. In the 1950s Japan sonny boys, was a word into Japanese which connoted smart and presentable young men. The first Sony-branded product, the TR-55 transistor radio, appeared in 1955, at the time of the change, it was extremely unusual for a Japanese company to use Roman letters to spell its name instead of writing it in kanji. The move was not without opposition, TTKs principal bank at the time and they pushed for a name such as Sony Electronic Industries, or Sony Teletech. Akio Morita was firm, however, as he did not want the company tied to any particular industry. Eventually, both Ibuka and Mitsui Banks chairman gave their approval, according to Schiffer, Sonys TR-63 radio cracked open the U. S. market and launched the new industry of consumer microelectronics

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Sony Music
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Sony Music Entertainment is an American music company owned by Sony. It is incorporated as a partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment. The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, in 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. Sony Corporation bought the company in 1987 and renamed it Sony Music Entertainment in 1991, the buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is one of the Big Three record companies, being the second largest after Universal Music Group, in 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several record companies. In 1934, in the midst of Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company, ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off. ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company. The renamed company made Columbia its flagship label and Okeh its subsidiary label and this allowed ARCs leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to their former owner Warner Bros. which sold them to Decca Records. Columbia kept the Brunswick catalogue recorded from December 1931 onward on the Columbia label and he was succeeded by James Conkling as head of Columbia Records. In 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name, Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label. Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953 and in 1956, Conkling left Columbia and he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. His successor, Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company, and in 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music. In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its international distributor Philips Records with the goal of starting its own global record company. Philips acquisition of US-based Mercury Records in 1961 paved the way for this, elsewhere, CBSs Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963. In 1964, Columbia set out acquiring record companies in countries for its CBS Records International Unit. EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution. In late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived and this label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Dates biggest success was Time of the Season by the Zombies, the label was discontinued in 1970

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Sony/ATV Music Publishing
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Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC is an American music publishing company owned by Sony through Sony Entertainment. The company was founded as a division of Associated Television in 1955 by Lew Grade, in 1985, Michael Jackson acquired ATV Music Publishing for $47.5 million. In December 1995, Michael Jackson agreed to merge ATV Music Publishing with Sony Music Publishing, in 2012 an investor consortium led by Sony/ATV Music Publishing acquired EMI Music Publishing for approximately $2.2 billion. Sony/ATV Music Publishing and EMI Music Publishing now operate as one company, following the acquisition, the company became the largest music publisher in the world, with a library of over two million songs under its administration. On March 14,2016, Sony announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the Jackson estates stake in the company, the deal was completed on September 30,2016. Sony/ATV was founded as a subsidiary of the UKs Associated Television, ATV operated a commercial television company, broadcasting from 1955 in London and the English Midlands as part of the Independent Television network. Business tycoon Louis Benjamin was involved with Lew Grade as part of one of the four major companies in the UK at the time. The company was Pye Records which, along with EMI, Philips, in 1959, ATV acquired 50% of Pye Records. Between them, Grade and Benjamin held most of the shares, ATV Music Publishing was created to exploit the catalogue of songs written by artists on the Pye Record label, and for the themes to ITC and ATV television programmes. The UK rights to some of the rock n roll music from the US were also bought by ATV, Grade established ATVs headquarters alongside those of Pye Records, off Edgware Road, beside the Marble Arch in central London. The 1950s and 1960s was a period for Grade and his brothers, Bernard Delfont and Leslie Grade. Pye Records had major artists of the period under contract, the Searchers, The Kinks, Donovan, Mungo Jerry, and Petula Clark were some of the artists that recorded for Pye Records. Pye also had contracts with several US companies, allowing them to manufacture, chess Records was among those, and counted Chuck Berry as one of its top artists. ATV Music acquired the rights to the Lennon–McCartney song catalogue, Northern Songs, the catalog featured almost every song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney until The Beatles legal split in 1971. Northern Songs had been co-owned and administered by Brian Epstein and Dick James, following Epsteins death in 1967, James put the company up for sale. Lennon and McCartney, upset that the songs they had written were not theirs legally and their bid to gain control, part of a long and acrimonious fight, failed. The financial clout of Grade, their adversary in the bidding war, ATV Music Publishing remained a successful organization in the music industry throughout the 1970s. Len Beadle, the chief executive, signed up many songwriters

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Sony Life
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Sony Life Insurance Co. Ltd. is a Japanese insurance company, founded in 1979 and headquartered in Tokyo. Sony Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd. was established in August 1979 as a joint venture between Sony and Prudential Financial and this company began operations in April 1981 with its Lifeplanner system. Sony and Prudential agreed to end their joint venture in July 1987, in September 1987, Sony Prudential Life was renamed to Sony Pruco Life Insurance Co, Ltd. In April 1991, Sony renamed this company to Sony Life Insurance Co, Sony Life established Sony Life Insurance Corporation in August 1998. The company is an owned subsidiary of Sony Life. In 2001, Sony Life accounted for 5% of Sonys overall revenue, Sony Life opened an office in Beijing in October 2008. It opened an office in Taipei in July 2009, Sony Financial Sony Life Insurance Co. Ltd. Business Report 2004 Sony Life Insurance Corporation

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Sony Bank
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Sony Bank is a Japanese commercial bank established in April 2001. It operates as a bank and has no physical branches or ATMs. It is a subsidiary of Sony Financial and a member of the Japanese electronics company Sony and its main business is offering online banking with foreign currency deposits, investment trusts, and home loans. A reduction in regulations in Japan at the end of the 1990s encouraged a number of companies to enter the banking sector for the first time, Sony faced challenges as it began Sony Bank. In 2001, when Sony Bank was founded, Web use was limited in Japan as compared with the United States, only 24 million people used the Internet every month at that time. Still, the company remained hopeful that infrastructure would improve, Sony claimed its move into banking went hand-in-hand with its shift from a manufacturing focus to a focus on content such as films and music. Sony announced its new banking unit in March 2000, the bank started doing business on June 11,2001. The company began with ¥37.5 billion of capital and it had around 80 employees at the time. It added 340 online accounts during its first hour of operation, at the time, the company offered yen-deposit accounts, investment trusts, card loans, and bank payments. It hoped to expand into foreign currency accounts, credit cards. It also hoped to allow its customers to use automated teller machines from the Japan Post, in 2001, Sony Bank hoped to accumulate 400,000 customers by 2004. In February 2001, the company had hoped to accumulate $5.2 billion in deposits, in February 2001, the company aimed to gain $8.6 billion in deposits by 2006. Analysts at the time were generally upbeat about the prospects for the bank, raymond H. Graber of TowerGroup suggested the bank could synergize with the other operations of Sony Financial. Still, Paul Jamieson of Gomez Advisors warned that customers would have high expectations for Sony Bank, given Sonys existing reputation for the ease of use, shigeru Ishii was appointed and served as the first president of Sony Bank. As of 2005 the company faced weak earnings, by 2007, Sony Bank had accumulated 500,000 customers. That year, Sony planned to add an online brokerage, in 2011, Sony group considering extending this subsidiary into the Australian market. However it abandoned those plans in 2013, upon the banks founding in 2001, Sony owned 80% of the company. By 2005, its stake had risen to 84. 2%, when JP Morgan Chase sold its stake, Sony increased its ownership to 87. 4%

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Betacam
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Betacam is a family of half-inch professional videocassette products developed by Sony in 1982. In colloquial use, Betacam singly is often used to refer to a Betacam camcorder, a Betacam tape, the cassettes are available in two sizes, S and L. The Betacam camcorder can only load S magnetic tapes, while television studio sized video tape recorders designed for video editing can play both S and L tapes, the cassette shell and case for each Betacam cassette is colored differently depending on the format, allowing for easy visual identification. There is also a key, that allows a video tape recorder to identify which format has been inserted. The smaller S cassettes use the form factor as Betamax. The format supplanted the three-quarter-inch U-Matic format, which Sony had introduced in 1971, in addition to improvements in video quality, the Betacam configuration of an integrated professional video camera/recorder led to its rapid adoption by electronic news gathering organizations. DigiBeta, the name for Digital Betacam, went on to become the single most successful professional broadcast digital recording video tape format in history. The original Betacam format was launched on August 7,1982, a blank Betamax-branded tape will work on a Betacam deck, and a Betacam-branded tape can be used to record in a Betamax deck. However, in later years Sony discouraged this practice, suggesting, in particular, the guide rollers tend to be noisy. Another common point between Betamax and Betacam is the placement of the linear audio tracks. Also, some Betacam and Betamax portables share the same batteries, Betacam was initially introduced as a camera line along with a video cassette player. The first cameras were the BVP-3, which utilized three saticon tubes, and the BVP1, which used a single tri-stripe Trinicon tube, both these cameras could be operated standalone, or with their docking companion VTR, the BVV-1, to form the BVW-1 integrated camcorder. The only transport controls on the deck were Eject and Rewind, the docked cameras VTR button started and paused the tape recorder. Later the Betacam SP docking decks had full transport controls but tapes could not be played back except in the viewfinder in black-and-white only. Sony then came out with the Play Adapter, a portable unit that connected via a multi-pin cable and had a composite video out jack for color playback. At first color playback required the studio source deck, the BVW-10 and it was primarily designed as a feeder deck for A/B roll edit systems, usually for editing to a one-inch Type C or three-quarter-inch U-matic cassette edit master tape. There was also the BVW-20 field playback deck, which was a unit with DC power and a handle. Unlike the BVW-10, it did not have a built in Time Base Corrector, or TBC, with the popular success of the Betacam system as a news acquisition format, the line was soon extended to include the BVW-15 studio player, and the BVW-40 Studio Edit Recorder

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Blu-ray
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Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was designed to supersede the DVD format, in that it is capable of storing high-definition, the plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional Blu-ray Disc discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the standard for feature-length video discs. Triple-layer discs and quadruple layers are available for BD-XL re-writer drives, the name Blu-ray refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs. The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as films and physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4. Besides the hardware specifications, Blu-ray is associated with a set of multimedia formats, high-definition video may be stored on Blu-ray discs with up to 2160p resolution, at up to 60 frames per second. DVD discs had been limited to a resolution of 480p or 576p. The BD format was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, Sony unveiled the first Blu-ray disc prototypes in October 2000, and the first prototype player was released in April 2003 in Japan. Afterwards, it continued to be developed until its release in June 2006. During the high definition disc format war, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format. Toshiba, the company that supported HD DVD, conceded in February 2008. According to Media Research, high-definition software sales in the US were slower in the first two years than DVD software sales, Blu-ray faces competition from video on demand and the continued sale of DVDs. As of January 2016, 44% of U. S. broadband households had a Blu-ray player, the information density of the DVD format was limited by the wavelength of the laser diodes used. Following protracted development, blue laser diodes operating at 405 nanometers became available on a production basis, Sony started two projects in collaboration with Philips applying the new diodes, UDO, and DVR Blue, a format of rewritable discs that would eventually become Blu-ray Disc. The core technologies of the formats are similar, the first DVR Blue prototypes were unveiled at the CEATEC exhibition in October 2000 by Sony. A trademark for the Blue Disc logo was filed February 9,2001, on February 19,2002, the project was officially announced as Blu-ray Disc, and Blu-ray Disc Founders was founded by the nine initial members. The first consumer device arrived in stores on April 10,2003, the Sony BDZ-S77, but there was no standard for prerecorded video, and no movies were released for this player. On October 4,2004, the name Blu-ray Disc Founders was officially changed to the Blu-ray Disc Association, the Blu-ray Disc physical specifications were completed in 2004

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Bravia (brand)
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BRAVIA is a brand of Sony Visual Products Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, and used for its television products. Its backronym is Best Resolution Audio Visual Integrated Architecture, all Sony high-definition flat-panel LCD televisions in North America have carried the logo for BRAVIA since 2005. BRAVIA replaces the LCD WEGA which Sony used for their LCD TVs until Summer 2005, the brand is also used on mobile phones in North American, Japanese and European markets. In 2014, in part of Hirais plans to turn Sony around, noteworthy for being the first Android TV available. In September 2016, Sony announced that TVs older than 2012 will lose access to YouTube, in April 2007, Sony launched the BRAVIA TDM-IP1, a docking cradle to permit playback of audio and video hosted on an Apple iPod on a BRAVIA model television. Current accessories available include a Skype camera and Wi-Fi adapter, Sony Bravia Internet Video first became available in late 2009 on Internet enabled Bravia TVs, later becoming available on Sony Blu-ray and home theatre systems. The original Bravia Internet Video was built around Sonys XMB interface and had several streaming media partners including, Amazon Video On Demand, YouTube,2011 saw a revamp of Bravia Internet Video, with a rework of the interface and an added Skype capability. Sony Bravia Internet TV is the first TV to incorporate Google TV, XBR8 is a series of Sony BRAVIA LCD High Definition Televisions. They were released into the US marketplace starting in September 2008, the 46- and 55-inch models of the XBR8 series features an RGB LED backlight system which Sony calls Triluminos. The new backlight system is claimed to provide a truer and higher color spectrum and this model also marked the debut of Sonys new video processor, the BRAVIA Engine 2 Pro. The display panel uses ten-bit processing and offers the 120 Hz MotionFlow technology, the XBR8 line offers two screen sizes, the 46 was released on September 29,2008. The second model, the 55 became available for order in October 2008, for consumers who rely on electricity generated from carbon dioxide emitting sources, it reduces carbon dioxide emissions totaling 79 kilograms a year. Sony uses a BRAVIA image processing engine in high-end mobile devices produced by its Sony Ericsson communications arm, subsequent flagship models of Sonys smartphone range such as the Xperia S, and Xperia Z use enhanced versions of the BRAVIA engine. In addition, BRAVIA brand phones have been produced by Sony/Sony Ericsson, BRAVIA brand phones are able to watch 1seg terrestrial television. For NTT DoCoMo FOMA SO903iTV FOMA SO906i FOMA SO-01C For au by KDDI U1 S004 S005 The LCD panels within BRAVIA TVs are manufactured by Sony corporation with a special architecture. Since 2010, high end Bravia LX, HX and selected NX series use 10th gen Sony Bravia ASV panel, the 8th gen SPVA panel from Sony LCD continue to serve other midrange and budget Bravia models. Many Sony televisions with USB connectivity run Linux, the software can be upgraded via a USB type A interface labeled DMEx / service only and via the Internet for later models. 2006–2007 models may be updated using Memory Stick or USB, depending upon the country and TV standard the Tuner may need a Service Device to update it

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Compact disc
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Compact disc is a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1982 and co-developed by Philips and Sony. The format was developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data. The first commercially available Audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan, standard CDs have a diameter of 120 millimetres and can hold up to about 80 minutes of uncompressed audio or about 700 MiB of data. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from 60 to 80 millimetres, they are used for CD singles, storing up to 24 minutes of audio. At the time of the introduction in 1982, a CD could store much more data than a personal computer hard drive. By 2010, hard drives commonly offered as much space as a thousand CDs. In 2004, worldwide sales of audio CDs, CD-ROMs and CD-Rs reached about 30 billion discs, by 2007,200 billion CDs had been sold worldwide. In 2014, revenues from digital music services matched those from physical format sales for the first time. American inventor James T. Russell has been credited with inventing the first system to record information on an optical transparent foil that is lit from behind by a high-power halogen lamp. Russells patent application was first filed in 1966, and he was granted a patent in 1970, following litigation, Sony and Philips licensed Russells patents in the 1980s. The compact disc is an evolution of LaserDisc technology, where a laser beam is used that enables the high information density required for high-quality digital audio signals. Prototypes were developed by Philips and Sony independently in the late 1970s, although originally dismissed by Philips Research management as a trivial pursuit, the CD became the primary focus for Philips as the LaserDisc format struggled. In 1979, Sony and Philips set up a joint task force of engineers to design a new audio disc. After a year of experimentation and discussion, the Red Book CD-DA standard was published in 1980, after their commercial release in 1982, compact discs and their players were extremely popular. Despite costing up to $1,000, over 400,000 CD players were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1984, by 1988 CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs, and by 1992 CD sales surpassed those of prerecorded music cassette tapes. The success of the disc has been credited to the cooperation between Philips and Sony, who came together to agree upon and develop compatible hardware. The unified design of the disc allowed consumers to purchase any disc or player from any company. In 1974, L. However, due to the performance of the analog format

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Cell (microprocessor)
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It was developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, an alliance known as STI. Cell is shorthand for Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, commonly abbreviated CBEA in full or Cell BE in part, the first major commercial application of Cell was in Sonys PlayStation 3 game console. Mercury Computer Systems has a dual Cell server, a dual Cell blade configuration, a computer. Toshiba had announced plans to incorporate Cell in high definition television sets, for these reasons, Cell is widely regarded as a challenging environment for software development. IBM provides a Linux-based development platform to help developers program for Cell chips, the architecture will not be widely used unless it is adopted by the software development community. However, Cells strengths may make it useful for scientific computing regardless of its mainstream success, in mid-2000, Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba Corporation, and IBM formed an alliance known as STI to design and manufacture the processor. The STI Design Center opened in March 2001, the Cell was designed over a period of four years, using enhanced versions of the design tools for the POWER4 processor. Over 400 engineers from the three worked together in Austin, with critical support from eleven of IBMs design centers. During this period, IBM filed many patents pertaining to the Cell architecture, manufacturing process, Each Processing Element contained 8 APUs, which are now referred to as SPEs on the current Broadband Engine chip. This chip package was widely regarded to run at a speed of 4 GHz and with 32 APUs providing 32 gigaFLOPS each. This design was fabricated using a 90 nm SOI process, in March 2007, IBM announced that the 65 nm version of Cell BE is in production at its plant in East Fishkill, New York. Bandai Namco Entertainment used the processor for their 357 arcade board as well as the subsequent 369. In February 2008, IBM announced that it begin to fabricate Cell processors with the 45 nm process. In May 2008, IBM introduced the high-performance double-precision floating-point version of the Cell processor, the worlds three most energy efficient supercomputers, as represented by the Green500 list, are similarly based on the PowerXCell 8i. The 45 nm Cell processor was introduced in concert with Sonys PlayStation 3 Slim in August 2009, by November 2009, IBM had discontinued the development of a Cell processor with 32 APUs but was still developing other Cell products. On May 17,2005, Sony Computer Entertainment confirmed some specifications of the Cell processor that would be shipping in the then-forthcoming PlayStation 3 console and this Cell configuration has one PPE on the core, with eight physical SPEs in silicon. The target clock-frequency at introduction is 3.2 GHz, the introductory design is fabricated using a 90 nm SOI process, with initial volume production slated for IBMs facility in East Fishkill, New York. The relationship between cores and threads is a source of confusion

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Cyber-shot
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Cyber-shot is Sonys line of point-and-shoot digital cameras introduced in 1996. Cyber-shot model names use a DSC prefix, which is an initialism for Digital Still Camera, many Cyber-shot models feature Carl Zeiss trademarked lenses, while others use Sony, or Sony G lenses. All Cyber-shot cameras accept Sonys proprietary Memory Stick or Memory Stick PRO Duo flash memory, select models have also supported CompactFlash. Current Cyber-shot cameras support Memory Stick PRO Duo, SD, SDHC, currently the W and T-series use Sony N-type batteries While most H-series use G-type batteries. From 2006 to 2009, Sony Ericsson used the Cyber-shot brand in a line of mobile phones, on March 31,2012 Sony unveiled the Sony Cybershot DSC W690 as the worlds thinnest 10x optical zoom camera. Some Cyber-shot models can take 3D stills by shooting two images using two different focus settings, the technology uses one lens only for the process, and users can later see the images on a 3D TV or on a regular 2D screen. The cameras have been available since 2010, cyber-Shot models such as the DSC-HX20V and the DSC-HX200V have a built-in GPS so the user can have their photos automatically geotagged as they are being taken. The feature can also serve as a compass as it shows the position on the camera screen. Tru Black is a developed by Sony which allows a better visualization of the screen, even when there is too much light. It enables LCD screens to change the display contrast in order to enhance the controlling reflectance. In other words, when light hits a display with Tru Black technology, all current Cyber-shot cameras are equipped with a panoramic technology branded as Sweep Panorama, which enables the user to capture wide format photographs using only one lens. The photos can be taken and displayed in 2D or 3D, Sony Alpha Sony SmartShot Sony Picture Motion Browser

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Character designs to some of the main characters in The Spectacular Spider-Man. Left to right: Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn, Spider-Man, Peter Parker, J. Jonah Jameson, Dr. Curt Connors and Eddie Brock.